Three Fish Limit

The medical profession has been getting a “pass” in the health care debate. Now the insurance industry trade group turns its guns onto medical providers to deflect some ”heat”  – “We’re not going to be in the barrel alone.”  

John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media

The health insurance industry’s trade group wants state and federal policymakers to examine what it claims are “exorbitant” out-of-network charges by physicians that are detailed in an industry-sponsored survey released today.

The America’s Health Insurance Plans report, a survey of physician out-of-network charges in the 30 largest states, found what AHIP claims are wide disparities in the cost of various services that were in some cases tenfold higher than Medicare reimbursements for the same service in the same area. Susan Pisano, AHIP vice president for communications, calls the figures “pretty startling.”

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